Malaysia is one of the most popular destinations for Hongkongers, whether for tourism or business. In fact, Hong Kong businesses are the second-largest foreign investors in the country, with M$5.3 billion (HK$13.1 billion) invested as at the end of last year, next only to Japan, whose investment was more than M$7 billion.

The low penetration of health-care insurance in the mainland, rising incomes and government policy would provide a boom in the local drug market, investors attending an industry conference have predicted.

Health workers and medical scientists in India are at the centre of a growing row over allegations that they regularly recruit illiterate people into clinical trials and sterilisation programmes without their informed consent.

Shanghai will invest more than one billion yuan on research and development to promote its modern biological pharmaceutical industry during the next three years. The report said the local government recently listed the modern biological pharmaceutical industry as one of the three high-technology industries that would be developed in an accelerated way.

IT was indeed heartening to read the contents of the advertisement taken out by the Hongkong College of General Practitioners (HKCGP) to celebrate its 15th anniversary (South China Morning Post, March 13).